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difficulty
noun as in problem; situation requiring great effort
Strongest matches
adversity, complication, crisis, deadlock, dilemma, frustration, hardship, hazard, obstacle, pain, predicament, snag, struggle, trouble
Strong matches
arduousness, awkwardness, barricade, check, crux, distress, emergency, exigency, fix, hindrance, hitch, impasse, knot, labor, laboriousness, mess, misfortune, muddle, obstruction, painfulness, paradox, perplexity, pickle, quagmire, quandary, scrape, stew, strain, strait, strenuousness, tribulation
Weak matches
noun as in mental burden
Strongest matches
anxiety, complication, crisis, embarrassment, frustration, inconvenience, misery, predicament, pressure, setback, stress, strife, struggle, trouble, worry
Strong matches
ado, aggravation, annoyance, bafflement, bother, care, charge, depression, discouragement, distress, emergency, exigency, grievance, harassment, imbroglio, irritation, jam, maze, mess, millstone, oppression, perplexity, pickle, pinch, puzzle, quandary, ramification, responsibility, scrape, strain, strait, to-do, vicissitude, weight
Weak match
hangup
noun as in argument
Strongest matches
controversy, dispute, hassle, misunderstanding, strife, trouble
Weak match
Example Sentences
It can lead to difficulty in walking, sitting, or controlling movement, or speech problems.
It comes after warnings the youngest care leavers face a "devastating care cliff", which sees them losing support when they turn 18 and leave care, as well as difficulties with joblessness.
In a packed waiting hall outside the doctor's consulting room, anxious parents stood in line with children sneezing, coughing or complaining of breathing difficulties.
"One analysis showed the possibility was high that it was AI-generated, while the other said the possibility of AI was low," he said, highlighting the difficulty of spotting increasingly realistic-looking AI images.
Shipments are also gradually resuming, said Atsushi Katsuki, the firm's president and chief executive, who apologised for the difficulties caused by the disruption.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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